I have used one of my Sassy Cheryl images, this one is called Sassy Sally and her Autumn Leaves - I won some of these fab images in a challenge recently and now I'm completely hooked. The papers are a free download from Summer Driggs called Falling for Fall.

As usual I have decorated the inside of my card to complement the front:

Tuesday, 30 October 2012

Good morning, I hope everyone is well and enjoying the new week. We have a new challenge for you at Bearly Mine Designs and this week the theme is - FLOWERS GALORE.

My image is one of the fabulous LOTV Mini Masterpieces and the papers are, of course, Bearly Mine Designs - the floral one is from one of the Designer Extreme CD's and the dotty one is from the Mini Dots collection, I use the mini dots papers again and again they are so useful. Full details of everything I have used are listed below.

I have decorated the inside of my card using the same papers as the front:

Monday, 29 October 2012

I can't believe how fast the weeks fly past, it's time for a new challenge at Whoopsi Daisy. It's Team A's turn to provide the inspiration this week and our theme this time is - PUNCH IT OUT - we would like you to use punches or dies on your cards.

This is my card using an image from the Daisy & Friends at Christmas CD, I have coloured her with a combination of ProMarkers and FlexMarkers and used distress ink to make the sky background. I also tore some strips of white paper and added some glitter to form the snow at the base of the image. Full details of everything I have used are listed below.

As usual I have decorated the inside of my card using the same papers and design:

Make sure you pop over to the Whoopsi Daisy Challenge Blog, take a look at the DT inspiration and join in with this weeks PUNCH IT OUT challenge but don't forget you can also enter an ANYTHING GOES WITH A WHOOPSI DAISY IMAGE project.

Thank you so much for visiting me today, please leave a comment so that I know you have called and I can come and visit you.

Sunday, 28 October 2012

Good Morning everyone, it's time for a new Challenge over at The Crafty Pad and the lovely Dawn has chosen the theme - Christmas is Coming - so we would love to see all of your Christmas related projects.

I seem to be having a bit of a colour theme with my Crafty Pad DT cards at the moment the last one was Pink Butterflies and this time it's Blue Christmas, I have used the delightful Crafty Pad image Christmas Tree Trio and this is my card:

I printed the image out three times onto some pale blue papers from the Bearly Mine Designs Christmas Wishes collection and added the brown with my Cocoa ProMarker, as is usual with me I have cut the images out to create some decoupage layers. The base paper is also from the Bearly Mine Designs Christmas Wishes collection and my card stock is Core'dinations, the only embellishment is some Ice Stickles added to the snowflakes on the image.

I have decorated the inside of my card using the same papers and a smaller image:

Friday, 26 October 2012

This is my card for this weeks CD Sunday Challenge - Poetry Corner, I decided to use this cute little House Mouse image from Joanna Sheen's Just the Two of Us Decoupage set. The CD part of my card is the papers - they are from Joanna Sheen's House Mouse Inserts CD, the base has large hearts on it - I've been quite successful at covering them up completely and the smaller hearts are from one of the inserts on the CD.

You would not believe the problems I've had trying to post this card, first when I downloaded the photographs I had taken, because of the angle I had taken the shots at, the little mouse looked like he had four ears and then when I tried to insert my watermark it kept coming up really huge, almost obliterating the entire image, even though the settings were all the same as usual. So back to the drawing board and start again.

I followed the sketch from Sketch 'n' Stash, I really like this sketch and this is the second card I have made using it. My card stock is Core'dinations and the sentiment tags are LOTV, I used my Fiskars edge punch on the central border and corner - the buttons and twine are from my stash.

This is a close up of the little poem for those of you who have not seen it before:

You can see the inside of my card and a little of the decoupage layers in this photograph:

Wednesday, 24 October 2012

I have made this card for the Songbird Challenge - Build Me Up Buttercup - yellow must be one of the main colours on your card. As soon as I saw this challenge I just knew the image that I wanted to use, the only problem was I didn't have it, so I had to buy the CD.

What do you think of the way I have been taking my photographs lately, I never seemed to be able to get them straight, so I have been taking them at a slight angle - you can't see if they are straight or not now!

The Image and the papers are all from Ooh La La Creations All Dressed Up CD, I wanted this CD when I first saw it on Create & Craft but managed to resist. I eventually bought it directly from Ooh La La and it arrived quicker than it would have from Create & Craft.

The card stock is Bazzill Basics from Craftie-Charlie, the sentiment is from The Crafty Pad and the ribbon was in my stash. I have inked the edges of the sentiment to match the image.

The inside of my card has been decorated to match the front leaving a blank rectangle with inked edges to write on.

This card is for my niece's daughter - does that make her my grand niece or great niece - I'm not quite sure, anyway I hope she likes it.

Tuesday, 23 October 2012

This is my card for the Ooh La La Challenge, the theme this fortnight is Christmas Sentiment. I chose this fab Pyramid image from Christmas Presence called Winter Homes, there are so many gorgeous images on this CD it was difficult to choose which one to use.

The papers are also from the CD and the card stock is Core'dinations. I have kept the embellishments quite simple again - just some card candy from my stash. The sentiment is from the LOTV Simply Sophisticated collection.

I have decorated the inside of my card to complement the front, you can also see the Pyramid layers in this photograph.

Monday, 22 October 2012

I can't believe how fast the weeks fly past, it's time for a new challenge at Whoopsi Daisy. It's Team B's turn to provide the inspiration this week and our theme this time is HALLOWEEN - we would like to see your spooky, scary - or non scary, witching projects.

You could also enter an ANYTHING GOES WITH A WHOOPSI DAISY IMAGE project if you would like, so if you use a WHOOPSI DAISY IMAGE you can enter any style of card or project you like - you don't have to follow the theme - so come on get out your WHOOPSI DAISY images and show us what you can do - there is usually a free image HERE.

This is my card using a pre-coloured image from sheet 386, pop over to the Whoopsi Daisy Digi Shop and take a look at the new sheets, there are lots with coloured and non coloured digi images on them, perfect for when you want to take some time and colour your image and also for those quick cards that you need to make in a hurry.

All of the papers are from the Bearly Mine Designs - Happy Hauntings set and the card stock is Crafter's Companion Core'dinations - I've nearly used up all of my black now. I cut my bat embellishments from some free papers from Summertime Designs and then heat embossed them with black embossing powder.

Full details of everything I have used are listed below.

I have used the same design and papers to decorate the inside of my card to match the front:

Make sure you pop over to the Whoopsi Daisy Challenge Blog, take a look at the DT inspiration and join in with this weeks HALLOWEEN challenge but don't forget you can also enter an ANYTHING GOES WITH A WHOOPSI DAISY IMAGE project.

Thank you so much for visiting me today, please leave a comment so that I know you have called and I can come and visit you.

Friday, 19 October 2012

This is my card for this weeks CD Sunday challenge - Autumn Splendour, I have really struggled today trying to take decent photographs, I'm not the greatest photographer at the best of times but with this miserable weather it has been virtually impossible to get a decent picture.

The cute little puppy image is from Joanna Sheen's Puppies & Kittens CD and the papers and sentiment are from Docrafts Wellington Past Times CD. I cut the image out using my Spellbinders Classic Circle die and decoupaged the leaves to add a little interest, I have left the card quite plain because I think it would be suitable for a man.

Well that's it from me for this evening, I need to start sorting out my craft room - hubby has agreed to give it a complete make over for me, so we will be paying a visit to IKEA for some storage and we are going to buy the paint tomorrow.

I have used two images from my Polka Doodles - Sundae of Seasons CD, this has to be my favourite CD for Halloween and I just love the fact that it contains both coloured images and digi images for you to colour yourself. The papers are Bearly Mine Designs - Happy Hauntings.

I added an inked sky to the haunted house image and the tree is from a Darice embossing folder, I have just cut around one edge.

I have decorated the inside of my card with co-ordinating papers and another image from the CD:

Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Good morning, I hope everyone is well and enjoying the new week. We have a new challenge for you at Bearly Mine Designs and this week the theme is - Anything Goes.

I have used one of my LOTV images from the Mini Masterpieces range called Carol Singing to which I added some Stickles and 3D Crystal Lacquer.

The papers are Bearly Mine Designs - Christmas Traditions and a little scrap of music paper from my stash. I have distressed the edges of the papers and image with antique linen distress ink and stamped some foliage on the corners of the image. The snowflake embellishment is a Whimsy die with a star shaped button in the middle and the sentiment is LOTV. Full details of everything I have used are listed below.

I have decorated the inside of my card following the same design as the front.

Monday, 15 October 2012

I can't believe how fast the weeks fly past, it's time for a new challenge at Whoopsi Daisy. It's Team A's turn to provide the inspiration this week and our theme this time is BIRTHDAY CARDS.

You could also enter an ANYTHING GOES WITH A WHOOPSI DAISY IMAGE project if you would like, so if you use a WHOOPSI DAISY IMAGE you can enter any style of card or project you like - you don't have to follow the theme - so come on get out your WHOOPSI DAISY images and show us what you can do - there is usually a free image HERE.

This is my card using a pre-coloured image from Sheet 387, pop over to the Whoopsi Daisy Digi Shop and take a look at the new sheets, there are lots with coloured and non coloured digi images on them, perfect for when you want to take some time and colour your image and also for those quick cards that you need to make in a hurry.

My papers are Pink Petticoat and I have inked the edges with old paper distress ink. As the layout is quite fussy I have kept the embellishments to a minimum - just stars die cut from corrugated card and a LOTV sentiment tag.

Make sure you pop over to the Whoopsi Daisy Challenge Blog, take a look at the DT inspiration and join in with our BIRTHDAY CARD challenge but don't forget you can also enter an ANYTHING GOES WITH A WHOOPSI DAISY IMAGE project.

Thank you so much for visiting me today, please leave a comment so that I know you have called and I can come and visit you.

Sunday, 14 October 2012

Good Morning everyone, it's time for a new Challenge over at The Crafty Pad and the lovely Helen has chosen the fab theme - Distress it! - so Ink it, Rip it; Sand it, Scrunch it ... whatever it takes to make your project look distressed!

I used a shaped card blank that I bought from Create and Craft ages ago, well I used most of it anyway - I have loads of different shaped cards and I hardly ever use them. I cut this one in half and folded it down the middle for the base card and then cut a section out of the other half for the top layer. I traced around the shape on a page from a French/English dictionary that is now redundant (my son has now dropped French and German studies). I inked the card blanks and the dictionary page along with a doily with a little old paper and a lot of victorian velvet distress ink.

I printed the butterfly images and the verse after changing the size and colour in Word. I then cut the verse out with a Spellbinders Floral Oval die and cut around the butterfly images to which I then added some 3D Crystal Lacquer. All that was left to do was a little more distressing, tie a bow and some construction.

This is the inside of my card, I didn't quite know what to do for this, so I kept it very simple with a butterfly image and a little distress ink.

Thursday, 11 October 2012

This is my offering for the CD Sunday challenge this week, the image and papers are from my Ooh La La Christmas Presence CD, there were four images on the sheet - I suppose I could have just cropped it but I just couldn't resist printing them all and making some decoupage.

I layered the image onto red card stock and then onto Kraft along with the papers and the corrugated layer has been distressed with some white Pebeo paint. I am having mega problems trying to embellish my cards at the moment - I just can't seem to get it right - so I have left it quite plain again. Full details of everything I have used are listed below.

I decorated the inside of my card to complement the front with the same papers and part of an insert from the CD.

Wednesday, 10 October 2012

I decided that I would like to join in with the Lili's Little Fairies Challenge this week and the theme is - A Christmas Card for the Boys - a nice easy one then!

I had a good hunt though all of my Lili of the Valley stash and decided to use this fab die cut topper called Boy Sledging and teamed it up with the fab new Christmas papers from Bearly Mine Designs - Christmas Traditions.

I followed the sketch from this weeks Sketch Saturday and as it is a card for a boy I have kept things quite simple. I layered the image onto red card stock and then white and all of the papers have been layered onto the white card stock.

I used my Martha Stewart Halloween Border punch - it's supposed to be goo but I think it looks quite like melting snow - across the centre and just added some buttons and stickles (which of course don't show up in the photographs) to embellish. The sentiment is from the LOTV Simply Sophisticated set, stamped with fired brick distress ink.

I have decorated the inside of my card following the same layout as the front.

Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Good morning everyone, it's time for our October New Release Celebration over at The Crafty Pad Challenge Blog and it's my pleasure to showcase the new Christmas Pine Cones and Holly Set:

I have coloured the image with ProMarkers and have inked the edges of my Bearly Mine Designs Festive Fun Christmas papers with old paper distress ink, my sentiment is a Creative Expressions stamp. Full details of everything I have used are listed below.

Make sure you pop over to The Crafty Pad Challenge Blog and have a look at the other new releases and the inspiration from the design team. For your chance to win the Christmas Pine Cones and Holly image all you have to do is leave a comment on the Challenge Blog post and your name will go into the draw. For a 2nd chance in the draw, become a follower of The Crafty Pad Challenge Blog and leave another comment telling us you are a follower - how easy is that!

Monday, 8 October 2012

I can't believe how fast the weeks fly past, it's time for a new challenge at Whoopsi Daisy. It's Team B's turn to provide the inspiration this week and our theme this time is FLOWERS GALORE - we would like to see flowers, on your papers, as your image or embellishments - the choice is yours just as long as we can see some flowers.

You could also enter an ANYTHING GOES WITH A WHOOPSI DAISY IMAGE project if you would like, so if you use a WHOOPSI DAISY IMAGE you can enter any style of card or project you like - you don't have to follow the theme - so come on get out your WHOOPSI DAISY images and show us what you can do - there is usually a free image HERE.

This is my card using a pre-coloured image from sheet 390, pop over to the Whoopsi Daisy Digi Shop and take a look at the new sheets, there are lots with coloured and non coloured digi images on them, perfect for when you want to take some time and colour your image and also for those quick cards that you need to make in a hurry.

My papers are Bearly Mine Designs - Floral Fantasy, I have inked the edges of the papers with spun sugar distress ink and used my X-Cut scalloped border punch to edge the central panel. Full details of everything I have used are listed below.

I have decorated the inside of my card to match the front and you can also see that I have decoupaged the image in this photograph:

Make sure you pop over to the Whoopsi Daisy Challenge Blog, take a look at the DT inspiration and join in with our FLOWERS GALORE challenge but don't forget you can also enter an ANYTHING GOES WITH A WHOOPSI DAISY IMAGE project.

Thank you so much for visiting me today, please leave a comment so that I know you have called and I can come and visit you.